Curtain fixture



Mar'. 27, 1923.

1,449,521 E. LITTLE CURTAIN FIXTURE Filed sept. So, 1921 A TTORNE Y -lll Patented 27, 192.

STATES anni EDWARD LITTLE, F PAWT'UICKET, RHODE ISLAND. i

CURTAIN FIXTURE.

Application 'filed September 30, 1921. Serial No. 504,507.

To all fui/mm 'it may concern Be it known that I, EDWARDy LITTLE, a citizen ot the United States, residing at Pawtucket, in the county ot Providence and State et Rhode Island, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Curtain Fixtures7 oll which the 'following is a specification.

My invention relates to combined shade rollers and curtain brackets or supports.

The essential objects ot' my invention are adaptability for supporting shades and curtain rods of various lengths; prevention of bending the guide plate or base plate under the action of the attaching screws; the provision againstaccidental loosening of the shade bracket adjusting means; the provision ot a strong adjustable and detachable supporting means for the curtain brackets; and inexpensiveness of construction.

To the above ends essentially my invention consists in such parts and in such combinations oit parts as fall within the scope of the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawings which form a part of this specification,

Figure 1 is a front elevation of the upper portion ot a window easement to which my device is applied,

Figures 2 and 8, iront and rear perspective views of the latter,

Figures 4 and 5, sections of the same on lines 4-4 and 5 5 respectively of Figure 2,

Figure 6, a detail view of the adjusting screw, and j Figure 7, a detail view of a slidable member.

Like reference characters parts throughout the views.

In the drawings 8 is the windowy casing on each side ot' which is a bracket represented in a general way by 9. Each bracket comprises an elongated guide plate 11 provided with a longitudinal guide slot 12 and holes 14 adjacent its tour corners to accommodate attaching screws 15. The material of the plate 11 at its ends is bent rearwardly to term end walls 17, and then rearwardly to form rear walls 18 parallel with the plate 11 providedv with centrally extended portions 19 provided with forwardly directed lateral tlanges 2O abutting against the guide plate adjacent and between each pair of indicate like holes 14; The portions 18, 19, and 2O thus form such a reinforcement that the attaching screws may be tightly engaged in the windowcasing through the holes 14 without bending the guide pleite 11.

Means for supporting shade rollers consists of a slidable plate 22 provided upon its ends with guide lingers or flanges 24 loosely engaging the upper and lower edges of the plate 11. Integral with the lateral edge of the'slidable plate is an ear 26 disL posed at right angles to the plane of the plate having upper and lower lugs 28; one horizontal and the other depending, provided respectively with perforations 29 and 30 for the reception of the ends of an upper and a lower shade roller.

For adjustment the plate 22 hasv a hole 32 to admit an adjusting screw 84 which passes through the slot 12 and has a head 36 abut ting against the rear of 'the plate 11 and provided with a guide rib 37 slidable in the slot. A milled nut 88 engages the screw in front of the plate 11. The ear 26 is out away at its base to forma cavity 4() which affords access to the nut 38 while the ear iftself forms a guard for the latter.y

A curtain rodsupport comprises a supporting rod or arm 42 provided preferably with a downward bend 45 and a terminal upturned end portion 44. The inner end of the arm has a depending closed loop 46 constituting a brace. The material of the loop is at its end downwardly bent as at 48 forming a resilient terminal finger 50. The bend or loop 48 receives the upper margin of the plate 11 against the rear face of which the finger 50 bears. The construction of the brace 46 and its integral resilient linger 50 facilitatesy the changing of the arm 42 to anydesired location on the guide plate required by the length of the curtain rod supported or engaged by the arm. In Figure 4 is shown in broken lines one of several possible adjusted positions which may be assumed by both the shade and curtain rod supports.

I claim j 1. In a device ot the character set forth, a guide plate provided with marginal screw holes, a shade support mounted on the plate, rearwardly directed walls formed on the ends of the plate, rear walls integral with the end walls comprising reduced end portions lateral forwardly directed flanges on the reduced portions of the rear Walls engaging the plate adjacent the Sciew holes.

2. In a, device of the character described,

5 a guide plete provided with a guideV Slo-t, a,

shade support comprising ztpslidztlole plate, flanges on the second plate embracing" the tiret platte, and an ear on the. slidztble plate provided with a cavity, a, Clamping screw in the slidable plate and guide slot, and a 10 thumb nut on the screw Within theioavity. In testimony whereof I have affixed my Signature.

EDWARD LITTLE. 

